Abstract

SAENZ, José Darío. Configuración de una élite política en Cali: 1958-1998. CS [online]. 2009, n.4, pp.147-176. ISSN 2011-0324.  https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i4.439.

This article examines the key characteristics among political elite groups in Cali during the last four decades of the twentieth-century. One can assert that a gradual change has occurred from a political elite group with a strong entrepreneurial component and close ties to the business sector, to one whose character is both political and professional. What has not varied however, are the political party affiliations that have remained loyal to either the Liberal or the Conservative party, even as the number of political factions have increased, political elite groups still ascribe to traditional parties. From this, we can affirm that the local political system is still tightly closed, even after the institutional changes generated by the end of el Frente Nacional and the 1991 constitution.

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